Your message dated Mon, 9 Jan 2017 22:30:35 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: False positive ? has caused the Debian Bug report #534892, regarding libssl0.9.8: err_fns_check() has a race if a pointer assignment is not atomic to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libssl0.9.8 Version: 0.9.8g-15+lenny1 Severity: normal static void err_fns_check(void) { if (err_fns) return; CRYPTO_w_lock(CRYPTO_LOCK_ERR); if (!err_fns) err_fns = &err_defaults; CRYPTO_w_unlock(CRYPTO_LOCK_ERR); } Helgrind flags the above function as an error due to there being no lock on the first check of err_fns.
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--- Begin Message ---On 2011-05-16 21:40:21 [-0400], Scott Schaefer wrote: > I am a bit confused... I am certainly no Helgrind expert, and I will > concede that it may > know more about C than I do. However, this certainly appears to me to be a > false positive. correct, closing. Sebastian
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